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Iceberg larger than London breaks off Antarctica

giant iceberg almost the size of London broke off the Brunt Ice Shelf in western Antarctica on 22 January after years of cracking. The shelf calved during the spring tide, the regular swelling of the ocean that coincides with full and new Moon. Since

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